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Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな, IPA: [çiɾaɡaꜜna, çiɾaɡana(ꜜ)]) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). [1] [2] [3]
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.
Usually, hiragana is the default syllabary, and katakana is used in certain special cases. Hiragana is used to write native Japanese words with no kanji representation (or whose kanji is thought obscure or difficult), as well as grammatical elements such as particles and inflections . Today katakana is most commonly used to write words of ...
hiragana origin: 女: katakana origin: 女: Man'yōgana: 売 馬 面 女 梅 米 迷 昧 目 眼 海: spelling kana: 明治のメ Meiji no "me" unicode: U+3081, U+30E1: braille: Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation
The first full moon of the year is about to rise over the skies.. Get ready to "howl" at the "wolf" moon, a celestial event so named for the idea that in the dark, cold months of winter, wolves ...
促音 (sokuon, literally "rushed sound"): the small kana っ (historically represented by the full-sized kana つ and く), used to represent the moraic obstruent /Q/. Dictionaries [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] lists 促声 ( sokusei , literally "rushed voice") as a synonym, suggesting its origin in Middle Chinese phonology, where 促聲 refers to a ...
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hiragana origin: 毛: katakana origin: 毛: Man'yōgana: 毛 畝 蒙 木 問 聞 方 面 忘 母 文 茂 記 勿 物 望 門 喪 裳 藻: spelling kana: もみじのモ Momiji no "mo" unicode: U+3082, U+30E2: braille: Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation